Flemish

(noun.) one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch.

(noun.) an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium.

(adj.) of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture; 'the Flemish population of Belgium'; 'Flemish painters' .

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• Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Of part of the rough land he had made garden-ground, which he cultivated with singular, even with Flemish, exactness and care. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He had a big, blond, ruddy Flemish face and huge awkward peasant hands and he moved, with the dishes, as powerfully and awkwardly as a draft horse. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Flemish knave! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He sate on the roof of the cabin all day drinking Flemish beer, shouting for Isidor, his servant, and talking gallantly to the ladies. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Have I a Flemish face--the clumsy nose standing out, the mean forehead falling back, the pale blue eyes 'à fleur de tête'? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She wants to form you in all things after the model of a Flemish school-girl. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Never mind Mons and Leuze and the Flemish chaussées; do at Rome as the Romans do. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Louis VI used bombards of great length and power against the Flemish in 1477, while as early as 1401 bronze cannon had been cast in several cities of West Prussia. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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